Amsterdam-based Recall, an AI startup that helps users summarise, organise, and revisit information, announced on Monday that it has secured $1.5M (approximately €1.4M) in a funding round led by renowned VC Jason Calacanis.
Other investors, including Blockchain Founders Capital and Rocket Capital, participated in the round.
The Dutch company will use the funds to accelerate its mission to bring order to content chaos, transforming how individuals and businesses consume, organise, and retain knowledge.
Birth of Recall
Paul Richards, a South African full-stack developer with deep expertise in knowledge graphs in the cybersecurity industry, founded Recall in 2022.
The Amsterdam company was born from frustration with existing tools that required excessive manual effort but failed to connect and resurface knowledge effectively.
Richards envisioned a self-organising knowledge graph to connect his notes and highlight relevant past content.
After a year of struggle with his side project Recall, posting on Hacker News became his last hope and a game changer.
That first investment allowed him to quit his job and fully commit, bringing on developer Igor Gligorević as CTO to accelerate progress.
“Our vision is to redefine knowledge management as ‘intelligence management,’ where content consumption is intentional and insightful,” said Recall’s COO, Sankari, who brings over 10 years of startup experience.
How it works?
The web & mobile app organises information into a personalised knowledge graph, automatically tagging and connecting content based on key entities.
There are four main features:
- Summarise – The platform summarises online content from articles, PDFs, and YouTube videos up to 10 hours long.
- Categorise – Automatically categorise content using topic-based tags.
- Connect – Content is stored in a knowledge graph, revealing hidden connections and unlocking new insights.
- Review – The platform reinforces memory with a spaced repetition quiz, helping users retain content over time.
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